“The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”
Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Acheron
“The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”
Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist
Doris Veillette (1935–2019) Quebec journalist
Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, January 8, 1972, page 11.
Chronicle "Forbidden to men", 1972
Demi Lovato (1992) American singer, songwriter, actress, and author
Believe In Me
Lyrics, Don't Forget (2008)
“To hide our eyes to make others believe we are hiding tears.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 410
Context: When, O crowned Jesus; when, O loving Saviour; when, O patient and just Judge — when wilt Thou come forth from Thy hiding, and change tears to smiles, and groans to joys? When shall that choral song burst forth, sweeping through the air, and circling about Thy throne, which shall proclaim the redemption of the world to the Lord God?
“The social smile, the sympathetic tear.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
Education and Government; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)